Medway Open Award Centre

Analysis

Medway Open Award Centre is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Gillingham. It was registered in March 2017, 9 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and recreation, which this site groups under amateur sport and recreation. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Medway Open Award Centre reported income of £49k and spending of £41k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £8,329 to £49k (+490%), an average of +56% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 247%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 12,174 England and Wales charities whose main cause is amateur sport and recreation and that reported income, Medway Open Award Centre sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Beaumont Centre for the Over Sixties (£49k), Snettisham Memorial Village Hall (£49k) and The National Association of Women's Clubs (£49k).